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The politics of Costa Rica take place in a framework of a presidential, representative democratic republic, with a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and their cabinet, and the President of Costa Rica is both the head of state and head of government. Legislative power is vested in the Legislative Assembly. The ...
The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Putnam, Lara. The company they kept: migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2002). Sandoval, Carlos.
First female president of Costa Rica. [2] 47: Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera (born 1958) 8 May 2014 8 May 2018 Citizens' Action: 2014: 48: Carlos Alvarado Quesada (born 1980) 8 May 2018 8 May 2022 Citizens' Action: 2018: Youngest president since Alfredo González Flores (1914). First president to be called by Congress for hearing. 49: Rodrigo ...
Liberals almost completely dominated Costa Rican politics during this period, to the point that many historians call this the "Liberal State". In Costa Rica there was no war between liberals and conservatives as was common in the rest of Latin America and even coup d'etats and de facto governments were mostly between liberal factions.
The Senate of Costa Rica was the upper chamber of the Costa Rican Legislative branch as prescribed in the constitutions of 1844, 1859, 1869 and 1917. During all these different constitutions, the Senate had different characteristics and conformations.
This article lists political parties in Costa Rica.Costa Rica used to have a two-party system, which meant that there were two dominant political parties, the Social Christian Unity Party and the National Liberation Party, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
Pages in category "Political history of Costa Rica" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Coffee production played a key role in Costa Rica's history and in 2006, was the third cash crop export. [79] As a small country, Costa Rica now provides under 1% of the world's coffee production. [42] In 2015, the value of coffee exports was US$305.9 million, a small part of the total agricultural exports of US$2.7 billion. [78]